The Documentary Podcast Podcast
Hear the voices at the heart of global stories. Where curious minds can uncover hidden truths and make sense of the world. Documentary storytelling from the 麻豆社 World Service.
Hear the voices at the heart of global stories. Where curious minds can uncover hidden truths and make sense of the world. The best of documentary storytelling from the 麻豆社 World Service.
From conflict in the Middle East to the advance of AI, to the front line of the climate emergency, we go beyond the headlines. Each week we dive into the minds of the world鈥檚 most creative people, take personal journeys into spirituality and connect people from across the globe to share how news stories are shaping their lives.
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World Stories: Revolutions in Iran
Wed 22 Sep 2010
How does the spread of ideas impact individual lives, shape millions of minds, fuel is...
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Mysteries of the Brain - Part One
Mon 20 Sep 2010
"Why do we like and dislike certain foods? The most important thing in the tasting is...
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Seeking the Endgame - Part Two
Fri 17 Sep 2010
Chess fanatic Simon Terrington goes on a wide ranging journey and asks the question, a...
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Assignment - Senegal's Schoolboy Beggars
Thu 16 Sep 2010
Angus Crawford reports from Senegal for Assignment on what the government there is to...
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World Stories: The Children of Pedro Pan
Wed 15 Sep 2010
During operation Pedro Pan, 14,000 children were sent from Cuba by the parents for was...
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Zainab's Story
Mon 13 Sep 2010
"She walked in like a commander of the armed forces - despite the fact they had guns -...
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Seeking the Endgame - Part One
Fri 10 Sep 2010
Self-confessed chess fanatic Simon Terrington assesses how computer technology has at...
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Assignment - Commonwealth Games
Thu 9 Sep 2010
There are frantic preparations underway in India's capital city, Delhi, for the Games...
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World Stories: Afghanistan's Dancing Boys
Wed 8 Sep 2010
In Afghanistan women are not allowed to dance in public, but boys can be made to dance...
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The Legal World - Part Two
Mon 6 Sep 2010
Incompetence and corruption in Uganda's justice system is leading to countless numbers...
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The Battle for Hearts and Lungs - Part Two
Fri 3 Sep 2010
Sue Armstrong looks at the Malawi's growing dependence on tobacco growing.
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Assignment - Happy Birthday Mr President
Thu 2 Sep 2010
President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia is one of West Africa's longest serving leaders.
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A Widow's Journey
Wed 1 Sep 2010
In 1989, Appapillai Amirthalingam - the most prominent political figure of the Tamil -...
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The Legal World - Part One
Tue 31 Aug 2010
It is claimed that thousands of people of Haitian descent are suffering systematic by...
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The Battle for Hearts and Lungs - Part One
Fri 27 Aug 2010
Sue Armstrong investigates the growing pressure on developing countries as tobacco for...
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Assignment - Cutting the Lifeline in Honduras
Thu 26 Aug 2010
Money sent home by migrant workers provides a lifeline for millions of the world's...
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World Stories: The Rollercoaster of Life in Kabul
Wed 25 Aug 2010
"Why doesn't grandad smile?" Meena Baktash takes a personal look at the Kabul of her...
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The Brotherhood - Part two
Mon 23 Aug 2010
Despite an official ban and regular crack downs the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has to...
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The Wireless World of Gerry Wells
Fri 20 Aug 2010
Guru, boffin, eccentric and genius, Gerry Wells is obsessed with radio - tinkering and...
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Assignment - On the Run in Sweden
Thu 19 Aug 2010
Sweden has garnered respect around the world for the welcome it offered to thousands...
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The Brotherhood - Part one
Mon 16 Aug 2010
"No taxi driver in Cairo knows how to find the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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The Muslim Superstar
Fri 13 Aug 2010
Singer Sami Yusuf is one of the biggest superstars in the Muslim world.
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Assignment - Proud to be Georgian
Thu 12 Aug 2010
How do you train someone to love their country? Two years ago Russia and Georgia a war...
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Useful Idiots - Part Two
Wed 11 Aug 2010
In this two part series, the 麻豆社 takes a look at the intellectuals - or Lenin's - who...
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The Mossad
Mon 9 Aug 2010
"They teach you how to steal and they teach you how to kill and they teach you to do...
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Korea's lost children
Fri 6 Aug 2010
Korea's overseas adoption programme began in the 1950s as the impoverished answer to...
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Assignment - Politics in Rwanda
Thu 5 Aug 2010
Days before Rwanda's presidential election, the government has issued a strongly any...
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Useful Idiots
Wed 4 Aug 2010
鈥淭hat鈥檚 what my role was. I was taken around and shown things as a useful idiot.
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Shaking the World - Part Four
Mon 2 Aug 2010
"This culture inhibits the evolution of new ideas," says Professor Guosong Liu of the...
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Spanning the World - Part Four
Fri 30 Jul 2010
London Bridge has served as a crossing, a shopping district, a housing settlement and...
